podcast – Mostly Erlang

Zach asks Rachel and Andrea about F#. Panel Andrea Magnorsky @silverspoon Rachel Reese @rachelreese Zach Kessin @zkessin Links http://www.roundcrisis.com/2015/02/22/Type-providers http://www.oreilly.com/webcasts/index.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156509.aspx EDIT: Sorry, everyone!  I edited and then accidentally uploaded the unedited version.  It’s fixed now.

Panel Francesco Cesarini @FrancescoC Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Zachary Kessin @zkessin Conferences Erlang Factory San Francisco March 26-27 Elixir Conf EU 23-24 April Krakow Erlang User Coference Stockholm 11-12 June Links http://www.get-finch.com

Today’s podcast features guest speaker Heinz Gies, creator of project FIFO Panel Heinz Gies @heinz_gies Bryan Hunter @bryan_hunter Kevin Hammond @khstandrews Zach Kessin @zkessin Conferences Lambda Days in Krakow, Poland: February 26-27 Elixir Comp Europe in Krakow Poland: April 23-24 Erlang Factory San Francisco in San Francisco, March 26-27 Erlang User Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, […]

Zach, Bruce, and Kevin discuss Kevin’s new book. Panel Bruce Tate (@redrapids) Kevin Hammond (@khstandrews) Zachary Kessin (@zkessin)

Zach, Fred, and Jose answer questions live!  You’ll hear at the start that we erroneously welcomed you to Podcast #53, but rest assured this is in fact #54.  Here’s the link to the video.  http://mostlyerlang.com/2015/01/05/package-mangement-live/ Panel Zachary Kessin (@zkessin) Fred Hebert (@mononcqc) Jose Valim (@josevalim) Bruce Yinge (@brucify)

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/053_tools.mp3 The meta programming of Elixir makes for some very powerful testing tools for testing systems, Bruce Tate joins us to talk about what they are doing and how we can learn from it. Note this episode was recorded in Dec of last year Panel Bruce Tate (@redrapids) Eric Meadows-Jonsson (@emjii) Kevin Hammond […]

Ever have a system go strange on you, or fall down under load? Erlang has some amazing tools to try and debug these cases. Regular panelist Fred joins us to talk about his new book “Erlang in Anger” and his recon library. With these you will be in good shape to debug a system in […]

We apologize, this episode got messed up, so here is a fixed version Download Link: audio mp3=”https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/050_minikanran.mp3″%5D%5B/audio%5D Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/050_minikanran.mp3 A programming language that doesn’t change the way you think about programming isn’t worth learning — Alan Kay MiniKanren is a relational programming language that has been used for both research and in industry. Find out how […]

Supervisors are all about creating solid guarantees of how the system will recover after a fault and how it will be setup. If Erlang supervisors have ever confused you, or if you want to understand how this feature makes erlang one of the most powerful tools for building distributed systems this is the episode for […]

“…when 100 people are listening to you for an hour, that’s 100 hours of people’s time devoted to what you have to say. If you can’t spend 5 or 10 hours preparing for them, thinking about them, and refining your points to best suit their needs, what does that say about your respect for your […]

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/047_nitrogen.mp3 Nitrogen Nitrogen is a framework for creating rich web applications from erlang, for all of us who hate doing front end dev we can now do most of it within Erlang. Project maintainer Jesse Gumm joins us to talk about it and how to use it. Panel Zachary Kessin (@zkessin) Jesse Gumm […]

Joseph Joins us to talk about his efforts to build a scheme on the Erlang Beam VM. And the challenges that he has run into trying to build scheme. We talk about how erlang can be influenced by the scheme echo system and how implementing things is often a great way to learn how something […]

Download Link: https://mostlyerlang.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/045_robots.mp3 You can build Robots with Erlang! The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With.” Ok, maybe not that kind of robots, but […]

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We are joined by Bruce Tate and Jose Valim to talk about the tools that have been developing around Elixir and how they can help the rest of the Erlang eco system. This is the first of a series of episodes that will explore that wider Erlang eco system including Elixir, LFE, Erlog, LING, LuvieScript, […]